LEAD: Jobless Rate Is Unchanged   The nation's jobless rate remained unchanged at 6.6 percent last month as the number of people seeking work kept pace with the economy. Page 7.

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LEAD: Senator Sam Nunn told President Reagan today that the Administration would provoke a ''constitutional crisis of profound dimensions'' if it adopted a broad interpretation of the ABM treaty of 1972 without extensive consultation with Congress.

REAGAN IS WARNED BY SENATOR NUNN OVER ABM TREATY

LEAD: It has been chaotic here since the collapse of the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier a year ago. Street demonstrations, strikes and lynchings have become almost as much a part of life in the capital as people in faded clothing bathing in the sewers.

HAITI A YEAR AFTER DUVALIER: FREEDOM FILLS NO STOMACHS

LEAD: The head of the Justice Department's civil rights division asserted today that there had been no increase in overall racial violence in the United States despite highly publicized racial attacks in Queens and Georgia.

U.S. RIGHTS OFFICIAL DISCOUNTS TENSION

LEAD: A Federal appeals court ruled here today that the Labor Department must issue guidelines requiring farmers to provide toilets, drinking water and other sanitation facilities for fieldworkers.

U.S. TOLD TO SET SANITATION RULE FOR FIELD HANDS

LEAD: Mikhail S. Gorbachev told a group of former American officials this week that he wanted to press ahead with arms control talks but was uncertain whether President Reagan retained sufficient political strength to negotiate, one of the Americans said today.

GORBACHEV SAID TO SUPPORT TALKS DESPITE HIS DOUBTS ABOUT REAGAN

LEAD: A plan to open the 63d Street subway tunnel and three new stations by October 1989 was approved yesterday by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

M.T.A. PROPOSES OPENING 63D STREET TUNNEL IN '89

LEAD: The New York State Public Health Council unanimously adopted regulations yesterday that would prohibit smoking as of May 7 in most public indoor areas in New York and restrict it on the job and in most restaurants.

NEW YORK ADOPTS WIDE RESTRICTIONS ON PUBLIC SMOKING

LEAD: ''Any suggestion that I was involved in any kind of espionage is completely false. I'm a journalist. That's all I am.''  - Gerald F. Seib (3:4)

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

LEAD:  INTERNATIONAL 3-5, 28  Senator Nunn warned the President that the Administration would provoke a ''constitutional crisis'' if it adopted a broad intepretation of the ABM treaty of 1972 without extensive consultation with Congress. Page 1  The Kremlin wants to negotiate and to press ahead with arms control talks but is uncertain of President Reagan's political strength, according to former American officials who spoke to Mikhail S.

NEWS SUMMARY: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1987

LEAD: Iraq has successfully counterattacked against Iranian forces on the outskirts of an Iraqi city and appears to have gained the upper hand in the six-week-old battle, according to American military specialists.

IRAQ SAID TO GAIN UPPER HAND AT BASRA

LEAD: Thousands of policemen in riot gear surrounded Myongdong Cathedral in central Seoul early this morning to block a large rally planned for this afternoon by opponents of the Government.

Seoul Policemen Cordon Off Site of Planned Protest Rally

LEAD: An American reporter arrived here today after his release from Iran, where he was seized last weekend and later accused of espionage.

FREED BY IRAN, REPORTER GETS TO ZURICH

LEAD: The Broadway column in Weekend yesterday gave an incorrect credit for ''Fame H.S.'' The sole lyricist is Jacques Levy.

Correction

LEAD: The Soviet Union, buoyed by growing strains between the United States and the Arab world that have included the uproar over American arms shipments to Iran, has been moving to increase its influence in the Persian Gulf region and throughout the Middle East.

SOVIET HEIGHTENS PERSIAN GULF ROLE

LEAD: When Philippe de Villiers, Secretary of State for Culture in France's conservative Government, opened a new collection in the Invalides war museum in Paris this year, there was only one thing wrong.

A Classic Battle Over Frontier Models

LEAD: The editor of a literary magazine has been sentenced to seven years in prison for defaming China's socialist system, the daily China Legal News reported today. It was the first reported criminal case in China's campaign against Western liberalism.

China Sentences Editor As a Critic of Socialism

LEAD: In the final days of a two-month cease-fire, Victoria Justiniani, a rebel leader, borrowed perfume, earrings and high heels the other night and went out to dinner for the first time at the glittering Manila Hotel.

AS TRUCE ENDS, REBEL LEADER TRIES A TASTE OF NORMAL LIFE

LEAD: Dr. Andrei D. Sakharov, the physicist and dissident, said today that seven more dissidents had been freed from Soviet prisons, labor camps or exile in recent days.

SOVIET SAID TO FREE 7 DISSIDENTS

LEAD: He was once one of the more self-confident young officers in the Salvadoran Army. But today Col. Omar Napoleon Avalos is a pale man who looks as if his certainties have been shaken.

SALVADORAN COLONEL SEES REBELS IN NEW LIGHT

LEAD: The State Department awarded a secret contract for $276,186 last year to a public relations company that reportedly worked with Lieut. Col. Oliver L. North to rally support for military aid to the Nicaraguan rebels.

STATE DEPT. SAID TO PAY $276,186 TO PUBLICITY CONCERN FOR CONTRAS

LEAD: Fifteen people were hurt and 15 arrested in clashes with the police here today as nearly 2,000 youths protesting university admissions policies sought to march on the office and housing compound of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez.

15 Are Hurt in Protest By Youths in Madrid

LEAD: A year after his flight into exile, Jean-Claude Duvalier is living at ease on the French Riviera with no indication that he plans to leave anytime soon.

DUVALIER'S LIFE OF LEISURE

LEAD: Adalberto Garza has lived in the United States illegally since 1975, working for most of the time as a machinist in the Houston area. He is one of an estimated 3.9 million illegal aliens who could be eligible to apply for legal status under the amnesty provisions of the nation's new immigration law.

SUIT ALLEGES AMNESTY LAW PUTS MANY ALIENS IN LIMBO

LEAD: Here, in the glistening capital of the New South, in a city that prides itself on building anew, the preservation of buildings from a less frenetic past has become a hotly debated concern.

ATLANTA 'CITY OF FUTURE,' MEETS ITS PAST

Joel Daniel Freeland is a British former professional basketball player who last played for CSKA Moscow of the VTB United League. Standing at 2.10 m, he played at the power forward and center positions. He also represented the Great Britain national basketball team.

February 7, 1987

Headlines from February 7, 1987

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REAGAN IS WARNED BY SENATOR NUNN OVER ABM TREATY

HAITI A YEAR AFTER DUVALIER: FREEDOM FILLS NO STOMACHS

U.S. RIGHTS OFFICIAL DISCOUNTS TENSION

U.S. TOLD TO SET SANITATION RULE FOR FIELD HANDS

Billboard 200

Slippery When Wet

Different Light

Night Songs

Licensed To Ill

The Way It Is

Notable Births

Historical Context for February 7, 1987